In honor of the passing of Gato Barbieri, the 407th Soundtrack of the Week
is his music for Last Tango in Paris.

Quartet Records recently released this double CD of the
popular soundtrack album with the original motion picture score.

The album has been around for a while so the
real news is the original soundtrack recording,
a masterpiece of economy and expression. The
program consists of mostly short cues with a wide range of moods and purposes.

There are sweeping romantic and lyrical pieces, tangos,
of course, powerful rhythms and percussion-dominated tracks as well as
more familiar-sounding dramatic underscore.

The album develops and expands on these cues to
create a listening experience that's friendlier to people
who aren't soundtrack fanatics. It's an intensely romantic
record, with Barbieri's
intense saxophone sound driving the music forward.